InRule vs. TIBCO BusinessEvents

InRule is suitable for when your business rules need to change on a daily basis and you want the flexibility for your commercial team to take the ownership and drive results, without dependency on development teams. It also suited for when you want to quickly prototype new business logic without going through development cycles. It is also suited when you want to have the simplicity in the system so that even managers can jump in and help if needed.

Incentivized

BusinessEvents is not very well suited for Cloud native solutions, but it is suitable for traditional enterprise self-maintained data center deployment. And it gives the business the power to define/modify/update the business rules, in a visualized way, instead of asking IT team to maintain them. Generally speaking it is a very comprehensive rule engine solution, but not suitable for "hook on" some other complex computation/data processing logic

Incentivized

• Great customer service. Always quick to respond to questions.
• Excellent training and documentation.
• Enterprise level security model and integration via OAuth/SAML standard for Access Management.

• Business users have the capability of changing rules dynamically without downtime in the application.
• Real-time processing capability decreases latency and increases the efficiency of the features developed in TIBCO BE.
• Capability of caching the data as well as managing it as an independent entity as TIBCO Active Spaces is a huge addition.

Incentivized

• Authoring software loading time can be slow if ruleset is very complex.

Incentivized

• We had to write our own business rules interface that matched how our previous systems operated. Web Studio has gone through some great changes but in that time we have made a decision to move to Kafka, Kinesis, and Spark for our events streaming solution in AWS.
• We did not modify our business process flow to take advantage of BE. If you are not truly running an adaptive business process effort, then BE could be overkill.

Incentivized

There is not a single instance where they didn't respond within 8 business hours.

We also evaluated Sequel Rulebook. InRule stood out against both vendors as easy to use, product/domain focused, and enterprise-ready.

Drools is an open source alternative for CEP solutions, that provides a business rules engine. Unfortunately it comes without support, while the TIBCO support for BusinessEvents is very efficient. Additionally, TIBCO BusinessEvents suite provides several additional components that could satisfy many requirements, and it can be integrated with existing TIBCO stack, giving great interoperability with other TIBCO products. As well as could be used in stand alone way.

Incentivized

• It is always reliable and efficient.
• Has won customers over.

• Positive: dashboard is very informative and extremely powerful
• Negative: we need to have more capability for data integration - OR for prototyping data integration and analytics, without resorting to something complex and big like StreamBase (which is truly amazing) but requires too much specific knowledge for industrial application. something easier to learn would be great. for example, I was able to learn KNIME and prototype a solution in a week. But StreamBase is too complex.

Incentivized